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MUMBAI: Will the World Bank continue to support the state agencies despite their tardy implementation of various infrastructure projects in Mumbai? Answer to this question may be found on Thursday when World Bank's new chief Robert Zoellick comes calling to Mumbai to review the ground realities. The bank has been a major contributor to the city's biggest-ever comprehensive transport management plan ? Mumbai Urban Transport Project (MUTP). The nearly Rs 5,000-crore project which began in 2002 was designed as a first and urgent step towards improving physical infrastructure in rail and road transportation.

WASHINGTON: The new president of the World Bank, Robert Zoellick, wants to allow private-sector companies to help finance aid to the poorest countries, an innovation already stirring controversy. The unprecedented outreach already has met with a positive response, Zoellick said on Thursday at a news conference here, without naming the companies. "This is at an early stage," Zoellick said in response to a question about a Financial Times interview published in which he revealed the World Bank's new strategy.

WASHINGTON: The World Bank executive board met on Monday to consider the sole nominee for the bank's presidency, former US diplomat and trade chief Robert Zoellick, a bank official told media. If confirmed, Zoellick faces the task of rebuilding trust in the development lender after a scandal at the top exposed deep divisions. "There is no doubt that the institution has been through a period of turmoil and I think that one of the tasks of a new president will be to try to calm the waters," Zoellick said in Berlin this month on a global "listening" trip.

The announcement of Robert Zoellick as the US nominee to succeed Paul Wolfowitz as the president of the World Bank puts paid to any hope that President George W Bush might heed the call for an overhaul of the selection process. Coming as it does soon after the Bank's board issued a statement late on Tuesday that opened the door to a rival nomination and listing the criteria, the US announcement can only be interpreted as another example of its high-handedness. It's not that competence of the former US deputy secretary of state, better known in India as the former US Trade Representative (USTR)

WASHINGTON: Robert Zoellick's biggest task at the World Bank, next to restoring staff morale, may be to restrain the expansion of the largest development organisation's mission. The former US trade representative will take over a 61-year-old agency that has expanded its mandate beyond building roads and clinics to include goals such as promoting ecological tourism and funding theatre groups. Mr Zoellick is more likely to concentrate on objectives that bring tangible results.

WASHINGTON: Robert Zoellick, tapped by President George W Bush to take over as president of the World Bank, may prove to be the antidote to his ousted predecessor, Paul Wolfowitz. Officials who've worked with Zoellick describe him as non-ideological and a consensus-builder who's willing to adapt his stance in order to cut a deal. "Zoellick is a man who gets things done," said former Secretary of State James Baker, who brought him into the Reagan administration in 1985.

WASHINGTON: US President George W Bush nominated former diplomat and trade chief Robert Zoellick on Wednesday to head the World Bank after a favoritism scandal that forced Paul Wolfowitz to resign. "I am pleased to announce that I will nominate Bob Zoellick to be the 11th president of the World Bank," Bush said in a formal announcement at the White House, with the seasoned diplomat and financial executive at his side. "Bob Zoellick has had a long and distinguished career in diplomacy and development economics.

WASHINGTON: US President George W Bush will name former Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick as the next World Bank head. Bush will announce the decision later today, officials said. Zoellick will succeed Paul Wolfowitz, who is stepping down on June 30 after findings by a special bank panel that he broke bank rules when he arranged for a hefty compensation package in 2005 for his girlfriend, Shaha Riza, a bank employee. The White House had yesterday said that the nomination process for the next President of the World Bank was almost through but Press Secretary John Snow did not speculate on any names.

WASHINGTON: World Bank president James Wolfensohn told the Bush administration on Monday that he will leave his post at mid-year, triggering a hunt for a replacement for the top job at the global lender. "Jim Wolfensohn did indicate to the secretary (Treasury secretary John Snow) that he is not seeking a third term at the bank," Treasury spokesman Rob Nichols told reporters. "With regard to a successor, we are just now beginning discussions with the other shareholders to discuss the process of nominating a successor.

PARIS: The US and the European Union agreed on Monday to allow more time for talks to settle a row over government help to aircraft makers Boeing and Airbus, but said arbitration by the WTO remained an option. US trade representative Robert Zoellick and EU counterpart Peter Mandelson announced the decision following a meeting in Paris, two months after the parties lodged separate complaints on the civil aviation subsidy question at the Geneva-based World Trade Organisation. The US contends that Airbus Industry has benefited from government subsidies that violate international trade rules.